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Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead

May 16, 2011 | 6:00
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May 21:Venice Art Walk: Event includes Venice artist studios tour and three architecture tours, two self-guided and one led by a docent. Appleton Way tour is noon to 4 p.m. May 21; West L.A. tour (including the Sherwood residence designed by A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith, shown above, with restoration by Cory Buckner) is 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 21; Venice tour is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 22. Artists studio tour is 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 22. Tickets range from $50 to $250.

May 21: Chrysanthemums: More than 150 varieties of rooted chrysanthemum cuttings will be available at the 79th annual Descanso Chrysanthemum Society Plant Sale. Perennial flowers and shrubs, tomato plants and other plants also will be for sale. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 21 and 22. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanical Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Free with admission of $3 to $8. (626) 821-4623.

May 21: Pasadena Heritage will present “Modern Works,” a lecture and architectural tour of modern, non-residential buildings designed by architects Edward Durell Stone and Smith & Williams. The lecture will begin at 1 p.m. at the Fran Norris Scoble Performing Arts Center of the Westridge School, 324 Madeline Drive, Pasadena. Following the lecture, a guided motor coach tour will make stops at the Stuart Pharmaceutical Company built in 1958, the Children’s Chapel, nursery school and education building, designed in 1948 – 1956, of the former Neighborhood Church (demolished in 1974) and currently part of the Sequoyah School. Lecture $18; lecture and tour, $45. (626) 441-6333.

May 22: In celebration of Historic Preservation Month, the Glendale Historical Society presents a window maintenance and restoration workshop featuring master carpenter Alan Adams. He will talk about how vintage wood windows can be maintained and restored rather than replaced. 1 to 3 p.m. Free. Brand Park, in front of the Victorian Doctors House, which has 120-year-old wood windows in fine working condition. (818) 242-7447.

Wexler show: “Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler” is a survey of drawings, photographs and models by the noted architect. They are augmented by professional photographs and new models fabricated by Cal Poly Pomona students, including a full-scale sectional steel model illustrating the prefabrication system that Wexler used in his steel houses. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays. Ends May 29. $5 to $12.50. Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs. (760) 322-4800.